Legal Costs Specialists Delivering Highly Effective and Efficient Costing Solutions
At Optimize Costs, our team of legal costs specialists offer a full range of legal costs services for your business. Whether you need to outsource all your legal costs negotiation work or are simply looking for some law costs drafting assistance, our experienced and professional law costs draftsmen and negotiators are standing by to help you navigate the legal costs minefield, including the statute of limitation and more.
Our legal costs specialists and negotiators are experts on the applicable hourly rates, forms, regulations and procedures for all cost-related matters. Our legal costs consultants will conduct a thorough analysis of your file for maximum cost recovery within the limits of the law. We are well versed on the changing laws governing the legal costs statute of limitations, among other pressing topics in the field including CFA arguments, insurance premiums, and the ever changing LSC costs. We are able to prepare the latest CLS Claim 1A Forms and assist in the procedure relating to Legal Aid costs.
Our legal costs negotiation services include preparing schedules and assisting in the preparation of estimates of costs for allocation and listing questionnaires. What follows is a brief list of the services we most commonly provide.
- Preparation of detailed bills of costs (County Court, High Court, Court of Appeal, House of Lords)
- Preparation of and replies to points of dispute
- Provision of advice and skeleton arguments
- Completion of all necessary court forms and a detailed assessment bundle
- Service of bill of costs to the court for assessment
- Preparation of EX80A form
- Completion of CLS claim 1 for payment by the LSC
- Attendance of professional assessment appeals, hearings, and detailed assessments in courts around the county
- Chasing of payments to the LSC
- Advice on costs issues and statutory charges
- In-house assistance for complex costs matters, including file costing
- Negotiation of legal costs
Our law cost draftsmen prepare accurate and detailed bill of costs that are tailored to each client’s specifications. We never use "template" bills of costs. At Optimize Costs, we can create complete bills of costs for any and all matters, including:
- Road traffic accidents
- Industrial disease
- Clinical negligence
- Dental negligence
- Complex commercial proceedings
- Employment tribunals
- Court of protection and probate
We serve a variety of clients and specialise in working with the Legal Services Commission (LSC), Legal Aid, and Public Funding Work.
- Children act/care proceedings
- Abduction proceedings
- Matrimonial proceedings
- Trusts of land
- Injunction/ASBO
- Housing
- Immigration
- Judicial review
- Mental health
- Actions against the police
- Crime proceedings
All of our legal costs drafting and negotiation services have flexible payment terms. Please call 0845 310 2687 today to speak with one of our law costs draftsmen or negotiators and receive your free, no-obligation price quote and details about how we can meet your company’s specific needs. We look forward to serving you! |